Training Program In Visual Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：本培训计划的目标是为博士后研究员提供视觉神经科学的跨学科培训。索尔克研究所多年来一直是一个视觉神经科学社区的所在地，该社区在其方法上具有高度的生产力和进步性，在共同感兴趣的主题上具有不同寻常的合作程度。该社区现在包括视觉神经生物学中心（CNV），其中包括采用各种实验方法的研究计划-分子，遗传，细胞，系统和计算-并解决视觉感觉，感知，认知，视觉引导行为，视觉可塑性，学习，记忆和发展的神经结构和事件。CNV的12个培训教师共同拥有一个漫长的，多样化的和非常成功的记录的视觉神经科学培训的前和博士后学生。拟议的培训计划将侧重于跨学科的研究项目，探索视觉系统的组织和功能，从分子到行为，解决处理层次结构中的多个阶段，并使视觉功能的病理学的理解。拟议计划的行政结构包括一个执行委员会，由T主任领导。奥尔布赖特和委员会成员（E。卡拉威河Krauzlis，D. O 'Leary和T. Sejnowski）代表我们的研究优势：感知的神经相关性，神经元回路和机制，发育和可塑性，以及视觉功能障碍。培训将提供一系列现代技术，包括电生理学，神经解剖学，功能磁共振成像，心理物理学，分子遗传学和理论/计算建模。鉴于我们项目博士后申请者的高质量，当前和过去学员的持续成功，以及用于视觉神经科学培训的私人资金减少，我们请求支持四名博士后学员，这将确保维持这种培训并利用我们15个NEI支持的研究项目的生产力。 公共卫生相关性：索尔克研究所是一个非常活跃的科学家社区，研究视觉系统的组织，功能和发展。拟议对特别合格的博士后研究员进行现代视觉神经科学概念和技术方面的培训，将确保进一步提高对正常视觉功能的认识，并开发有效的视觉病理治疗方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this training program is to provide postdoctoral fellows with interdisciplinary training in visual neuroscience. The Salk Institute has for many years been home to a visual neuroscience community that has been highly productive and progressive in its approach, with an unusual degree of collaboration on topics of shared interest. This community now comprises the Center for the Neurobiology of Vision (CNV), which includes research programs that employ a variety of experimental approaches - molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and computational - and address the neural structures and events that underlie visual sensation, perception, cognition, visually-guided behavior, visual plasticity, learning, memory and development. The twelve training faculty of the CNV collectively boast a lengthy, diverse and highly successful record of visual neuroscience training of both pre- and postdoctoral students. The proposed training program will place emphasis on research projects that are interdisciplinary, explore visual system organization and function across levels ranging from molecules to behavior, address multiple stages in the processing hierarchy and enable understanding of pathologies of visual function. The administrative structure of the proposed program comprises an Executive Committee with director T. Albright and committee members (E. Callaway, R. Krauzlis, D. O'Leary, and T. Sejnowski) representative of our research strengths: neural correlates of perception, neuronal circuits and mechanisms, development and plasticity, and disorders of visual function. Training will be provided in a range of modern techniques including electrophysiology, neuroanatomy, fMRI, psychophysics, molecular genetics, and theory/computational modeling. In view of the high quality of postdoctoral applicants to our program, the consistent successes of current and past trainees, and diminishing private funds for training in visual Neuroscience, we are requesting support for four postdoctoral trainees, which will ensure the maintenance of this training and leverage the productivity of our fifteen NEI-supported research programs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Salk Institute is home to an extremely active community of scientists investigating the organization, function and development of the visual system. The proposed training of exceptionally qualified postdoctoral fellows in the concepts and techniques of modern visual neuroscience will ensure further advances in understanding of normal visual function and the development of effective treatments for pathologies of vision.